As anyone with terminal services knows flash / media rich sites don’t play nice with RDP, especially over a T1 P2P. Problem is more and more sites are using flash and don’t have alternatives including our companies suppliers. I can't out right disable it but when a few people are on said sites they just kill the connection. I think we are already pushing the fact we have 25+ thin clients running over the connection as it is. Does anyone have any tips on how to improve on a situation like this? Any input would be awesome. Thanks guys!

@GW You can accelerate RDP with NX. NX is available in free and commercial versions so running a test could be free regardless of what version you decide to use eventually. NX might give you enough speed with your current bandwidth to work it workable for you.

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You could try lowering the color depth...however that's probably not going to help considerably. Animations in RDP just don't act well over low bandwidth scenarios. Do they have a browser on the thin client they could use for those sites?

@GW You can accelerate RDP with NX. NX is available in free and commercial versions so running a test could be free regardless of what version you decide to use eventually. NX might give you enough speed with your current bandwidth to work it workable for you.

Bart is correct, no remote access technology is "meant" to do remote media. It's just not a good system. One of the many reasons why I generally hate Flash because it is so often used in places where many of the users would be over RDP.